Let me ask you, do you currently subscribe to a TV service (cable | satellite) or would you in the absence of hulu? Personally, I used to have cable until I started watching hulu for free. The packages for the former were kinda silly, where one had to pay >90$ for ~100 channels they didn't want or 10$ for a stripped down service. If hulu did start charging, I could see a small subscription fee for unlimited access or commercials with limited access (most recent shows only?) as reasonable. However, they are going to have a hell of a time in moving to a pay model. Many of their more popular shows can be obtained on itunes for a nominal fee or are already available on a given show's website or parent network site: ABC, Comedey Central, CBS, Fox, etc (albeit with crappier flash players and bandwidth). I would like to see hulu make it as a viable, self-sustaining service, if for nothing other than to give current cable providers some competition. I just think they're going to have a hard time at it.
If you use a motion sensitive control like the wii remote, you could free up your hands AND feet. Just grip the control in your mouth and node whenever you need to make a turn. Then you could text with your toes and play Gran Tourismo 5 with your hands.
Yo dawg, we put a car in your car so you can drive while you drive.
Yup, plus he could have always chosen not get a loan or not borrow as much. The latter could be done with support from family or a job beforehand to build up buffer cache. A loan is a responsibility and a bit of an education in itself: be aware of what you're getting yourself into and accept the consequences. Life is hard and if you're not born into money, you have to take the long road to obtaining it : P. Sry.
That sounds even worse! It's like the fantasy rpg name if a bad guy who seeks to destroy the universe. Just the introduction could cause a panic:
"Hi,.we'd like to introduce you to the Nightbringer, Ender of Days and Destroyer of Light who feasts upon your puny life-giving photons. Don't be shy, he just wants to bring you all into Eternal Darkness."
Ooo, I just came up with a few new names for my WoW characters
*Runs off to see if they're taken...
I don't know if it's so much about the group size as it is about group dynamics. Consider that The Office has a dozen maybe two dozen employees. This is sometimes equivalent to the size of most engineering development teams. The number of people may be the same but the incentive for 'getting ahead' is not. That is because the managerial role is either on equal footing or requires much more experience and technical expertise to take on. In the case of say, a paper company, the manager's only skill may be seniority. In that case there may be more political maneuvering involved because employees can replace their boss with greater benefit to themselves. In a software development team, the graphics designer may not be able to replace the lead programmer/designer because they lack the skills and monetary incentive to do so, and they'ed be replacing their work with something they may enjoy less. I think The Office and Rao's framework do describe a large majority of work environments. I'm just wondering if there are special cases where it does not apply.
I'm kinda curious though, how well does his theory apply to a small team of skilled workers, like say a programming team or surgical department? Or for that matter, professional individuals who work solo either in consulting or producing their own products? It seems to me, that the type of insanity Rao describes, applies predominantly to people who have low mobility in the social-economic environment skill-wise (minus the sociopaths). These people then, through a special type of Darwinism, become sociopaths, the clueless, or losers because they have little to no bargaining power. If individuals had bargaining power/leadership but no motivation to completely drain their environment for personal gain, would this make them a different group or simply clueless?
The people who are in control of passing and managing such legal documents are probably not aware of version control systems; much less on how to even use them. Even if they were told of such a system, they'd probably need to be brow-beaten into trying it out or adopting it before it would actually become used in the real world environment (hint: maybe we need to drown them in suggestion letters?). Think of how hard it is to even get a Windows user to check out Linux or Mac. It'd probably be much harder introducing new technology to some 60+yo senators. On a side note, maybe someone on slashdot could setup a site called Law-Hub, like git-hub but for legal documents? Hopefully you won't get sued from some asinine reason like copyright infringement ><
You would probably like the kindle then. The current problem with the kindle is that they're not really built for the academic environment, in which reading is very much a task of information management. Without notes, highlighting, cross referencing, reference managers, a decent tagging scheme, a decent folder scheme, meta information sharing (references), and an open system to fill in the blanks, the kindle is going to do poorly in terms of that task; Especially with the comparable prices of eeepcs (cheap, tiny, sufficient battery life, and can incorporate all of the above). Now if you have many books that you use for leisure reading or the occasional reference the kindle, or any ereader for that matter, would be appropriate for you. As for me, I have specific uses in mind, and will wait until they hash out all the usability issues, or until someone else beats them to it (hopefully with an open system).
I disagree with you. There is a scarcity and it is skilled developer's time. Software development isn't the kind of domain where you can pay lots of low-skill, cheap, developers to replace a few highly skilled developers. They'd probably expect 60k (low end) - 100k (moderate end). Skilled programmers if not paid well or interested, will probably move somewhere else, and that costs more money to orient another employee to their work. Now if you have ~10 people on a project that spans 2-5 years, you're looking at a few million in development, not counting marketing, publishing, and lawyers (for miscellaneous legal negotiations). This implies that you should sell a few hundred thousand copies to break even. Some IPs can do this easily and others cannot. That being said, if developers came up with an ideal piracy-prevention method, it could mean the difference between staying afloat to produce another game or closing shop. This is, perhaps why some companies see DRM as a necessary evil: It annoys a small population of consumers, but might give them a better chance at surviving the fiscal year.
Not really...
Robert Jordan pretty much up and died in the middle of finishing his last book In Memory of Light. Leaving his family, publisher, and fans pretty much hanging. The recently got Brandon Sanderson to finish up the work; a very good author btw (see Elantris and the Mistborn series) who pretty much churned out part 1 of 3 in a year off of Jordan's notes. He was originally contracted to do 1 book but found it impossible due to how many threads were left open. I for one, am happy to see a good author finishing up this series in the original author's spirit (and with his family's blessing). So, as a fan I have to say fuck you for trolling.
Because it's a novel use of an existing method? It was published in PLoS and not some mathematics journal. So, while the algorithms are not new, they may be new to the intended audience. The actual claim of the article is that it can offer a predictive analysis of extinction rates of a species and validated them on some in-silico experiments. This could be useful for bench-scientists, as they could figure out what might happen in an experiment before running expensive tests. This might be useful for conservations trying to make sure whole ecosystems don't die out due to the removal of a species; the 'might' is significant as real-world ecosystems are generally more complex. But anyways, it's interesting because the models have practical application outside of theory to help us understand the world.
Ah that's the irony of kindle and being a student. It's expensive as hell but soo damn useful when you're trying to do literature review over a couple hundred papers. The one thing holding me back is I heard the citation manager isn't that great.
However, dealing with the false-positives is still a bitch.
That really depends on why you're running the test in the first place. Yes, general screening would probably be a bad idea as the accuracy is too low, but, if the patient was going to have a cancer test regardless of the situation, the cheap test could serve as a decision aid: you tested positive on the cancer-breath test which warrants more testing or you tested negative so you don't have to worry about it. Without the breath-test, these 17 false positives may have taken the normal cancer test anyways because they come from the subset of people who get cancer screening and not the general population.
It depends on how quick and cheap this test is. If it's really cheap, then it would be useful in validating more accurate (and inherently more expensive) tests that would be used for initial detection or risk assessment. As a hospital manager would you rather run 83 cheap tests and 17 expensive ones to confirm or 100 expensive tests; again it depends on the cost. On the other hand, I'd be more worried about the false negatives. Not being diagnosed with cancer, when you have it, and getting early treatment is much worse than getting an extra test, at least from the patient's perspective.
I'm just wondering, if at that price, they're looking for a scapegoat:
'Yes we lost several billion dollars due to shady lending and trading practices, but it's all the computer's fault for doing stuff we don't understand. Therefore, ask/blame the programmer.'
Somehow, though, I like to believe that the price is so high, not just because specialized skills are involved, but that those who go into science or engineering have more of their morality intact. Hence why game programmers may work for 80 hours a week at 60k while investment programmers require more incentive.
I don't know. Considering the lengths to which people went to when money wasn't involved, I would bet that this system would tempt the even more clever cheaters to get involved. When money is involved, you could justify spending more time developing methods of gaming the system. Just look at the systems brokers setup to do stock trading: clusters which could do trading on micro-second transactions. I just hope bringit.com has reasonable security experts.
I kinda think the ribbon interface is nice too, once you get used to its wierdness. It's actually functional when working with other people over version controlled documents, in that I don't have to dig through menu items to accept/reject changes to see a clean version of the final product. If I worked with it more (in a collaborative environment), I'd actually buy it. But, OpenOffice seems sufficient for my needs right now. Kinda like how some people are willing to Gimp instead of photoshop to manipulate pictures. It's only done once in a while and the core functionality is there.
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Let me ask you, do you currently subscribe to a TV service (cable | satellite) or would you in the absence of hulu? Personally, I used to have cable until I started watching hulu for free. The packages for the former were kinda silly, where one had to pay >90$ for ~100 channels they didn't want or 10$ for a stripped down service. If hulu did start charging, I could see a small subscription fee for unlimited access or commercials with limited access (most recent shows only?) as reasonable. However, they are going to have a hell of a time in moving to a pay model. Many of their more popular shows can be obtained on itunes for a nominal fee or are already available on a given show's website or parent network site: ABC, Comedey Central, CBS, Fox, etc (albeit with crappier flash players and bandwidth). I would like to see hulu make it as a viable, self-sustaining service, if for nothing other than to give current cable providers some competition. I just think they're going to have a hard time at it.
If you use a motion sensitive control like the wii remote, you could free up your hands AND feet. Just grip the control in your mouth and node whenever you need to make a turn. Then you could text with your toes and play Gran Tourismo 5 with your hands.
Yo dawg, we put a car in your car so you can drive while you drive.
Yup, plus he could have always chosen not get a loan or not borrow as much. The latter could be done with support from family or a job beforehand to build up buffer cache. A loan is a responsibility and a bit of an education in itself: be aware of what you're getting yourself into and accept the consequences. Life is hard and if you're not born into money, you have to take the long road to obtaining it : P. Sry.
Or in the cult of Scientology...
That sounds even worse! It's like the fantasy rpg name if a bad guy who seeks to destroy the universe. Just the introduction could cause a panic:
"Hi,.we'd like to introduce you to the Nightbringer, Ender of Days and Destroyer of Light who feasts upon your puny life-giving photons. Don't be shy, he just wants to bring you all into Eternal Darkness."
Ooo, I just came up with a few new names for my WoW characters
*Runs off to see if they're taken...
I don't know if it's so much about the group size as it is about group dynamics. Consider that The Office has a dozen maybe two dozen employees. This is sometimes equivalent to the size of most engineering development teams. The number of people may be the same but the incentive for 'getting ahead' is not. That is because the managerial role is either on equal footing or requires much more experience and technical expertise to take on. In the case of say, a paper company, the manager's only skill may be seniority. In that case there may be more political maneuvering involved because employees can replace their boss with greater benefit to themselves. In a software development team, the graphics designer may not be able to replace the lead programmer/designer because they lack the skills and monetary incentive to do so, and they'ed be replacing their work with something they may enjoy less. I think The Office and Rao's framework do describe a large majority of work environments. I'm just wondering if there are special cases where it does not apply.
I'm kinda curious though, how well does his theory apply to a small team of skilled workers, like say a programming team or surgical department? Or for that matter, professional individuals who work solo either in consulting or producing their own products? It seems to me, that the type of insanity Rao describes, applies predominantly to people who have low mobility in the social-economic environment skill-wise (minus the sociopaths). These people then, through a special type of Darwinism, become sociopaths, the clueless, or losers because they have little to no bargaining power. If individuals had bargaining power/leadership but no motivation to completely drain their environment for personal gain, would this make them a different group or simply clueless?
Geez, no one has a sense of humor here, especially regarding a Microsoft v Linux joke. I must be in the wrong place.
So it installs linux?
And they usually get hired by the company they swindled for more than they could ever steal.
The people who are in control of passing and managing such legal documents are probably not aware of version control systems; much less on how to even use them. Even if they were told of such a system, they'd probably need to be brow-beaten into trying it out or adopting it before it would actually become used in the real world environment (hint: maybe we need to drown them in suggestion letters?). Think of how hard it is to even get a Windows user to check out Linux or Mac. It'd probably be much harder introducing new technology to some 60+yo senators. On a side note, maybe someone on slashdot could setup a site called Law-Hub, like git-hub but for legal documents? Hopefully you won't get sued from some asinine reason like copyright infringement ><
You would probably like the kindle then. The current problem with the kindle is that they're not really built for the academic environment, in which reading is very much a task of information management. Without notes, highlighting, cross referencing, reference managers, a decent tagging scheme, a decent folder scheme, meta information sharing (references), and an open system to fill in the blanks, the kindle is going to do poorly in terms of that task; Especially with the comparable prices of eeepcs (cheap, tiny, sufficient battery life, and can incorporate all of the above). Now if you have many books that you use for leisure reading or the occasional reference the kindle, or any ereader for that matter, would be appropriate for you. As for me, I have specific uses in mind, and will wait until they hash out all the usability issues, or until someone else beats them to it (hopefully with an open system).
Sure, but once your shower evolves the ability to speak, it's just nag, nag, nag:
You're fat.
Wash behind your ears.
Having you been getting enough sleep?
Where have you been?
Have you been showering in another bathroom?
It's better to just apply a regular scrubbing and avoid the headaches altogether.
I disagree with you. There is a scarcity and it is skilled developer's time. Software development isn't the kind of domain where you can pay lots of low-skill, cheap, developers to replace a few highly skilled developers. They'd probably expect 60k (low end) - 100k (moderate end). Skilled programmers if not paid well or interested, will probably move somewhere else, and that costs more money to orient another employee to their work. Now if you have ~10 people on a project that spans 2-5 years, you're looking at a few million in development, not counting marketing, publishing, and lawyers (for miscellaneous legal negotiations). This implies that you should sell a few hundred thousand copies to break even. Some IPs can do this easily and others cannot. That being said, if developers came up with an ideal piracy-prevention method, it could mean the difference between staying afloat to produce another game or closing shop. This is, perhaps why some companies see DRM as a necessary evil: It annoys a small population of consumers, but might give them a better chance at surviving the fiscal year.
Not really...
Robert Jordan pretty much up and died in the middle of finishing his last book In Memory of Light. Leaving his family, publisher, and fans pretty much hanging. The recently got Brandon Sanderson to finish up the work; a very good author btw (see Elantris and the Mistborn series) who pretty much churned out part 1 of 3 in a year off of Jordan's notes. He was originally contracted to do 1 book but found it impossible due to how many threads were left open. I for one, am happy to see a good author finishing up this series in the original author's spirit (and with his family's blessing). So, as a fan I have to say fuck you for trolling.
Because it's a novel use of an existing method? It was published in PLoS and not some mathematics journal. So, while the algorithms are not new, they may be new to the intended audience. The actual claim of the article is that it can offer a predictive analysis of extinction rates of a species and validated them on some in-silico experiments. This could be useful for bench-scientists, as they could figure out what might happen in an experiment before running expensive tests. This might be useful for conservations trying to make sure whole ecosystems don't die out due to the removal of a species; the 'might' is significant as real-world ecosystems are generally more complex. But anyways, it's interesting because the models have practical application outside of theory to help us understand the world.
Neat, I'm interested in how you did this. Maybe you could a brief how-to? (I don't have a kindle so my ability to tinker is a bit limited right now.)
Ah that's the irony of kindle and being a student. It's expensive as hell but soo damn useful when you're trying to do literature review over a couple hundred papers. The one thing holding me back is I heard the citation manager isn't that great.
However, dealing with the false-positives is still a bitch.
That really depends on why you're running the test in the first place. Yes, general screening would probably be a bad idea as the accuracy is too low, but, if the patient was going to have a cancer test regardless of the situation, the cheap test could serve as a decision aid: you tested positive on the cancer-breath test which warrants more testing or you tested negative so you don't have to worry about it. Without the breath-test, these 17 false positives may have taken the normal cancer test anyways because they come from the subset of people who get cancer screening and not the general population.
It depends on how quick and cheap this test is. If it's really cheap, then it would be useful in validating more accurate (and inherently more expensive) tests that would be used for initial detection or risk assessment. As a hospital manager would you rather run 83 cheap tests and 17 expensive ones to confirm or 100 expensive tests; again it depends on the cost. On the other hand, I'd be more worried about the false negatives. Not being diagnosed with cancer, when you have it, and getting early treatment is much worse than getting an extra test, at least from the patient's perspective.
I'm just wondering, if at that price, they're looking for a scapegoat:
'Yes we lost several billion dollars due to shady lending and trading practices, but it's all the computer's fault for doing stuff we don't understand. Therefore, ask/blame the programmer.'
Somehow, though, I like to believe that the price is so high, not just because specialized skills are involved, but that those who go into science or engineering have more of their morality intact. Hence why game programmers may work for 80 hours a week at 60k while investment programmers require more incentive.
What if the robot can do something that Eddie can't, such as keeping Valerie Bertinelli happy? Would that make you worry?
They already have many robots for that. I'd provide a link but most of them are NSFW.
It's called iAbuse.
I don't know. Considering the lengths to which people went to when money wasn't involved, I would bet that this system would tempt the even more clever cheaters to get involved. When money is involved, you could justify spending more time developing methods of gaming the system. Just look at the systems brokers setup to do stock trading: clusters which could do trading on micro-second transactions. I just hope bringit.com has reasonable security experts.
I kinda think the ribbon interface is nice too, once you get used to its wierdness. It's actually functional when working with other people over version controlled documents, in that I don't have to dig through menu items to accept/reject changes to see a clean version of the final product. If I worked with it more (in a collaborative environment), I'd actually buy it. But, OpenOffice seems sufficient for my needs right now. Kinda like how some people are willing to Gimp instead of photoshop to manipulate pictures. It's only done once in a while and the core functionality is there.